Numbers 35:33

New King James Version

So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.

Cross References

Psalm 106:38

And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.

Micah 4:11

Now also many nations have gathered against you, Who say, “Let her be defiled, And let our eye look upon Zion.”

Isaiah 26:21

For behold, the Lord comes out of His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; The earth will also disclose her blood, And will no more cover her slain.

2 Kings 24:4

and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the Lord would not pardon.

2 Kings 23:26

Nevertheless the Lord did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath, with which His anger was aroused against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.

Leviticus 18:25

For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants.

Genesis 9:6

“Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.

Psalm 106:28

They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor, And ate sacrifices made to the dead.

Deuteronomy 21:23

his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance; for he who is hanged is accursed of God.

Genesis 4:10

And He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.

Numbers 35:32

And you shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.

Deuteronomy 19:10

lest innocent blood be shed in the midst of your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and thus guilt of bloodshed be upon you.

Judges 9:24

that the crime done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might be settled and their blood be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who aided him in the killing of his brothers.

1 Kings 2:31

Then the king said to him, “Do as he has said, and strike him down and bury him, that you may take away from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood which Joab shed.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed the laws, Changed the ordinance, Broken the everlasting covenant.

Jeremiah 16:18

And first I will repay double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable idols.”

Jeremiah 26:15

But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will surely bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for truly the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.”

Deuteronomy 19:13

Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

2 Samuel 3:29

Let it rest on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house; and let there never fail to be in the house of Joab one who has a discharge or is a leper, who leans on a staff or falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”

2 Samuel 21:9

and he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the Lord. So they fell, all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

2 Chronicles 23:15

So they seized her; and she went by way of the entrance of the Horse Gate into the king’s house, and they killed her there.